HyperNormalisation 2016

Why HN readers recommended it

Strongly and repeatedly recommended as a visually distinctive documentary and a guide to postmodern ideas on politics, truth and technology.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

crisalist

Topic

political and cultural history

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• No joke, just finished watching HyperNormalisation[1]. The most depressing part to me is that Adam Curtis isn't off on an easily dismissed tangent in this documentary, he's essentially cross cut the last 40 years into a 3 hour cliff notes guide to some of the …

• Hypernormalisation is an awesome documentary that actually covers this subject. If you've got a couple hours to kill I highly recommend it. It can be watched on youtube [VIDEO]

• Hypernormalisation from Adam Curtis. I have been looking for another documentary as visual appealing, as evolving as this one but haven't found any other documentary. [VIDEO] Do you know another documentary as good as this one?